ISNA - How to become an ally to intersex people While some intersex people also identify as transgender, intersex people as a group have a unique set of needs and priorities besides those shared with trans people. Too often, intersex people's unique needs are made invisible or secondary when "intersex" becomes just another subcategory of "transgender." It is for this reason that we prefer to have "intersex" spelled out explicitly rather than have it "included" in "transgender."